Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged …This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child …

This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The … for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% …

raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the … household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of children" are perceived essentially as market … leisure, to care for children. The studies also ignore the question of the distribution of income among adults and, in …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children. …

, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are ‘more involved’ perform better during the early years than their peers … States — to describe how leave policies may influence father’s behaviours when children are young and whether their … to carry out childcare related activities when children are young. This study finds some evidence that children with …